maconheiro
/ma.ko.ˈɲej.ɾu/
The verdict
“maconheiro” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #63,666 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #63,666
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - viciado em maconha
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maconheiro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ma.ko.ˈɲej.ɾu/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #63,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maconheiro” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for maconheiro is 10 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ma.ko.ˈɲej.ɾu/. Corpus data places it at rank #63,666 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "viciado em maconha".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for maconheiro, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is maconheiro, spelled M-A-C-O-N-H-E-I-R-O.
Definition
- 1viciado em maconha
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “maconheiro”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-A-C-O-N-H-E-I-R-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ma.ko.ˈɲej.ɾu/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.